The Difference Between a Central Line and a Pick Line

The real reason that we make this distinction is because the data supports a difference in outcome. But if you're a kind of rational thinking person, you could still ask these questions. Questions like if you place a catheter just inside the central circulation or just outside of it, does that suddenly change its infectious risk? So for instance, midlines are a in-between catheter that is longer than most people would call peripheral but does not reach the central circulation.